emmêlent
\ɑ̃.mɛl\
The verdict
“emmêlent” is uncommon French (frequency #86,668 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,668
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de emmêler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emmelent · emmêlent · French
emmêlent · rank #86,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,668
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embouts
Nearest frequency peer: embouts (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « emmêlent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- elli
elli
13,336 corpus weight
- embouchures
embouchures
13,335 corpus weight
- embouts
embouts
13,334 corpus weight
- emmêlent
emmêlent
13,333 corpus weight
- Emre
Emre
13,332 corpus weight
- enda
enda
13,331 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « emmêlent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emmêlent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « emmêlent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
emmêlent is uncommon French at frequency #86,668 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.mɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for emmêlent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is emmêlent, spelled E-M-M-Ê-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de emmêler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de emmêler.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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